jt-šmꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

jt (“barley”) +‎ šmꜥ (“Upper Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction. Allen instead apparently considers the second element a nisba adjective, *šmꜥj (“Upper Egyptian”), with unwritten weak j.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /it ʃɛmɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: it-shema

Noun

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1. Upper Egyptian barley

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 214.